Il Magistero
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School of Education built for the University of Urbino constructed of brick and dug into the hilly landscape
The building provides additional educational and public facilities including a library, teaching rooms for seminars, and a congress hall.
The building is entered from the tight pedestrian streets of the town onto the upper level of the building, which is built into the hillside. On the same level is a cluster of lecture theatres which are arranged in semicircular form and lit by a great skylight, sloping down to the lower floors.
Between these bold geometric shapes and the boundaries of the site are a number of foyers and circulation areas which have the feel of public places. Circular stairs and ramps have been included, to remind of the topography of the hill town outside.
Data
- Begun: 1968
- Completed: 1976
- Sector: Education
- Address: Il Magistero, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy
Professional Team
- Architect: Giancarlo De Carlo
- Project architect: Giancarlo De Carlo
- Client: Urbino University
- Design: Valeria Fossati Bellani
- Air-tight and wind-tight building products supplie: Astolfo Sartori
- Interiors: Susanne Wettstein
- Structural engineer: Vittoria Korach
- Graphics: Giovanni Galli
- Builder: Impresa Giuseppe Montagna
- Quantity surveyor: Lucio Seraghiti
- Mechanical engineer: Giuseppe de Micheli
- Acoustic engineer: Franco Marin
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